Pet skillpoints

[Pheonix Fontaine]

Just feel bad.

The spawnrate of eggs being abysmal and then hoping they have a specific set of 9? Just not a vibe. I'd rather just not.

Like, take Embertail, I'd want multiple Burning Anger (+40 burning damage on-hit) and then multiple Flaming Treat (15% chance to deal all the burning damage applied on-hit). But how many do I have to create just to make that specific version?

Maybe a new NPC that lets you "retrain" the pet with new abilities for a fee and sells a subset of new eggs?

[Khalunka]

I for one, like the RNG. At least give a better satisfaction once you get that perfect pet for you.

[Pheonix Fontaine]

Originally posted by Frick:

I for one, like the RNG. At least give a better satisfaction once you get that perfect pet for you.

The math and odds just aren't good though. Take the Nimble Egg for example:
0.59% (small flower vessel) and 3.42% (large flower vessel). The rarity alone, whatever, easy enough. But then 9 abilities rolling 12.5% chance of being right each (assuming equally weighted odds). Toss on hoping for a specific color variant of that?

Owlux? Oh sorry, you're a melee build and it randomized with 6 abilities that buff ranged abilities. You already "won the lottery" to get the initial egg, but now you gotta play a different lottery with your winning ticket to actually win?

Core Keeper feels too casual of a game for that level of grinding. Sure there are grinds in the game, but this feels like a next-level one. There's a lot of games that do this sort of mechanic and most end up getting rid of it because it only serves a very select amount of players, not the wider playerbase.

[Khalunka]

True, I spoke too soon. I was in my mind the egg which I am currently grinding, but that one can be bought from the vendor. While there are eggs way tougher to obtain.
I still like the RNG, but its indeed tough considering the scarcity of some eggs. That could be changed someway... maybe at some point which you keep unlock npcs, they have eggs from them?

[Pheonix Fontaine]

Originally posted by Frick:

True, I spoke too soon. I was in my mind the egg which I am currently grinding, but that one can be bought from the vendor. While there are eggs way tougher to obtain.
I still like the RNG, but its indeed tough considering the scarcity of some eggs. That could be changed someway... maybe at some point which you keep unlock npcs, they have eggs from them?

I'm thinking an NPC like that just being late-game to "tune" the pet skills and color maybe. Doesn't have to be "Here's the NPC from the start". Or "skillbooks". Something.

Heck, maybe copies of the egg being used to repick the skills. If I knew it wasn't pure random, I'd just need 10 copies of the egg for a perfect pet, it'd be fine, but RNG can make things like this take 3k copies of the egg.

[IamMokume]

Remember a pet can only learn 5 skills, so you don't need to have the perfect 9, just 5/9 in an accessible arrangement. But yes, I already have several large chests full of rejected critters as I search for my dream speed-granting owl and pray it doesn't end up bright pink. XD

[Eglaios]

Originally posted by Frick:

Core Keeper feels too casual of a game for that level of grinding. Sure there are grinds in the game, but this feels like a next-level one.

Core keeper definitely feels more grindy than Minecraft, Terraria, Stardew, Starbound, etc. to me :
-An "average" mob farm is way more huge than in any other game
-There are plenty of ressources that can require large-scale automation (boulders, multiple farms)
-The game encourages to visit multiple worlds in order to gather more

[Eglaios]

The egg RNG aspect feels really good to me.
Sure, I ended with 3 boss chests filled with failed pets before getting my first 5/9 (burn embertail :D ), but this only made me happier when I got it, and I cherish that one even more than if I simply rerolled its stats.

Even though only embertail and slime are renewable, the game encourages to explore multiple worlds or even trade with people on discord.

This might still be tedious, but having a 5/9 pet is a luxury anyways. Even failed ones can do pretty good to clear all the content available.


Only thing I wish is an NPC to give me pet food in exchange of all my failed pets